AmpBenzScientist @AmpBenzScientist@qoto.org

Dont forget to thank the local NTP Gods for just making sure that you have not thought about NTP for the past year

And the creator of NTP passed away recently.
Thank you Dave Mills

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/inventor-of-ntp-protocol-that-keeps-time-on-billions-of-devices-dies-at-age-85/

Dispatching and Completing the UART Interrupts ... On #Ox64 BL808 #RISCV SBC with Apache #NuttX RTOS

Article: https://lupyuen.codeberg.page/articles/plic2.html#dispatch-the-interrupt

Last toot I said I'm going to be employed. It's a quick decision, both to me and to the company. It's a fairly small company, around 30 people including the programmers and administrators. And it's not a high salary job (with the current FX rate, it's around 1k USD pre-tax), but the environment is very people-friendly, not like big companies where everyone is bonded by the rules. You need to go home and handle something? Sure, bring your laptop and they'll count you as working from home. If you really can't handle both, you can just ask and normally you get several days off.

The most important factor to make me decide to work there is no frequent overtime working. There will be overtime working, but most of them are predictable and you will be informed beforehand. And you can choose if you want to get money compensation or save it as an extra holiday and use it later. I don't know about other areas, but in China, man, this is the best you can ask for.

(Context: the average weekly working hours are 49 hours. Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1391557/weekly-average-working-hours-china/ )

The person who interviewed me is one of the bosses charges the tech things. I can tell he knows programming since we can understand what we're talking: blockchain, LLM, JVM, etc. It's a delightful interview. But that day is Friday and it's almost 5 pm (4:30). So we agree to meet on Monday. I'll show up in the morning and they do the rest, contract, etc.

I hope everything goes well. And thanks to you, my friends, for bearing my nonsense in the past year and congrate me on my (possiblely) new job.

"the school gave everyone on campus – including staff – a Light Phone ... a “dumb” phone with limited functionality"

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/17/cellphone-smartphone-bans-schools

Got an urgent interview.

During lunch, the recruiter asked when I'm available for an interview. I'd prefer next week, but the recruiter said the leader won't be available, she suggested next Monday.

Then she told me if I could go there this afternoon.

At now I'm going to work at that company next Monday.

That's totally unexpected. In 4 or 5 hours and now I'm going to be employed. Wow

How we handle a #RISCV Interrupt with Platform-Level Interrupt Controller (PLIC)

Article: https://lupyuen.codeberg.page/articles/plic2.html#handle-the-interrupt

My job isnt so bad. Afterall i could be the guy who has to put all those tiny rubber bands on the claws of lobsters.

Anyone remember that brief time, after the introduction of wireless networks but before the introduction of 3G and WiFi, where people would install microwave antennas on their houses to get broadband access if they couldn't get DSL or cable? This would have been around 1999-2003 or so.

How #Ox64 BL808 #RISCV SBC boots Apache #NuttX RTOS ... Exactly like Linux

Source: https://lupyuen.codeberg.page/articles/app

"#GNOME adopted Vala as a new language to solve the short-comings of C. Vala seems to be dead"

https://gruenich.blogspot.com/2024/01/new-programming-language-needed-for-kde.html